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In a free country, failing to comply with law enforcement does not give the state license to murder you
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The One Thing Everyone in America Can Agree On? Costco
Why the warehouse club with a mass appeal rivaling Hollywood’s may be our last best source of common culture
www.wsj.com/business/ret...1,487 243Jul 20, 2026 -
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"More than half of those fired or removed by Mr. Hegseth from promotion lists have been female or Black."
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After getting tariff relief. Happening right in front of us.
449 222Jul 4, 2026 -
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Murkowski: Why I’m Voting Against the SAVE America Act www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
406 99Jul 20, 2026 -
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"By early July, at the room’s most crowded, each person had about 10 square feet. This is equivalent to an old-fashioned phone booth."
1/5 of what a judge said was required.
Grotesque.372 169Jul 22, 2026 -
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When you are credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women, you don't get to choose who succeeds you when you are forced to drop out of the race
362 45Jul 8, 2026 -
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Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse)
PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31316 78Jul 8, 2026 -
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Watch what they do, not what they say
262 80Jul 23, 2026 -
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"DOE accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state, i.e., whether the recipient's location and/or place of performance was in a Blue State or a non-Blue State."
261 99Jul 24, 2026 -
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Literally "We have always been at war with Eastasia"
214 50Jul 20, 2026 -
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I asked a (brilliant female) colleague about the apparent gender gap in AI uptake in our field and she suggested that it was driven by women being more likely to be judged as incompetent if they use AI. This resume study suggests, sadly, that she may be correct codeforgoodnow.com/wp-content/u...
213 72Jul 3, 2026 -
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"describing... in starkly similar terms"
207 29Jul 8, 2026 -
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So much this:
"Why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world"
www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/intelligen...
Institutions, laws, and regulations matter. Politics matter (ask Dario and Sam!).
Kids: Study social science.199 41Jul 22, 2026 -
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This. Do NOT rush through on deadline. The evidence is clear. Be ready.
184 58Jul 14, 2026 -
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"if I was trying to ruin American leadership in scientific research this is pretty much the kind of rule I would write"
177 83Jul 11, 2026 -
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Important - as with the Tea Party in 2010, the DSA is driven by anti-system sentiment, not a sharp shift in the electorate. Likely to be misunderstood (as it was with the Tea Party, which didn't actually want Romney-Ryan entitlement cuts).
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"the winter siege confirmed that the more meaningful divide in the party is between those who comprehend the authoritarian challenge and are actively opposing it, and those who seem incapable of fully grasping, or adequately adapting to, the threat."
145 29Jul 5, 2026 -
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All can be true:
1. Universities have been targeted by a decades-long bad faith campaign
2. Status quo is vastly more normal than craziest stuff on Fox/social media, esp. outside elite schools
3. Parts of academia are in rough shape
Despite 1 & 2, we can and should address 3.140 15Jul 16, 2026 -
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Unprecedented corruption
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"the second time in a week that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have stopped the wrong vehicle while executing an arrest warrant and fatally shot someone."
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